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Unless they've changed something in the newer models you can't go wrong with the Browning BPS. Had mine for 10 years. No issues. Recently upgraded to the Browning Maxus just because I wanted an autoloader. No complaints there either but we are still into our first season...

Get a used 870 Wingmaster 3" magnum in good shape. Try to find one with a 28" vent rib barrel. Those 870 Expresses sound pretty cheap, Gooser wrote up what it would take to improve the Express in an earlier post. Probably easier just to get a Wingmaster. The 3" isn't a deal breaker, you can do just as well with a 2 3/4", you just have a little more flexability with the 3".

Absolutely on the money. There's a reason those old 870s were one of the most reliable pumps ever made.

"The longer you let a dog go in the wrong direction the more they think they are going in the right direction" Don Remien.

I can agree the old 870s where built so much better, today they are probably one of the worse guns out there. I'm going to give the SXP a shot for 450 bucks it should be a decent gun. Thanks for all the replies.

It will ALWYS jam ( can not eject spent shell from chamber)
when shooting ammo that has steel bases. The bases that are steel, then brass plated to look like brass.

If you shoot quality Ammo with Brass bases, The gun functions flawlessly.

the expansion and contraction between brass and steelcombined with a right tolerance chamber causes the issue.

so, don't jump on Remington to badly.

I refuse to shoot Walmart cheap promo ammo through any pump or auto loader.

Just me,, go ahead and have at me now, I kin take it! /)

and a quick butt-slap on the ground solves the issue and you don't worry about breaking it... See guys picking at their Benneli's so carefully as to not scratch them with their pocket knife while out duck hunting...lol...If it's for shooting ducks and can't be tossed in the pickup bed with wet dogs I don't want to own it.

I don't shoot pumps but a lot of the bums I hunt with do. The best of the bunch is an older Ithaca featherlight in 16 gauge.

Ole and Sven are quietly sitting in a boat fishing, chewing and drinking beer when suddenly Sven says, 'I think I'm gonna divorce my wife - she ain't spoke to me in over 2 months.' Ole sips his beer and says, 'Better think it over...women like that are hard to find.'